Presteigne Charter has been contracted by SIS LIVE, Europe’s largest OB and uplink provider, to supply a flypack to facilitate eight of the Grand Prix races for the BBC’s F1 coverage. The races, consisting of Australia, Malaysia, China, Bahrain, Singapore, Japan, Brazil and Abu Dhabi provide many broadcasting challenges and with many of these races being back to back, this provides a logistical challenge of its own, moving the equipment from location to location.

Programmes such as Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2, Football Focus, Score, Inside Sport and recently the World Athletic Championships in Osaka are produced from this studio.

Top level international and elite Dutch swimmers converged at the “Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium” in Eindhoven to compete for the Swim Cup 2009 from November 27th to 29th. The event was organised by Eiffel Swimmers PSV/NZE for the sixth consecutive year. On this particular occasion, the organisers of the Swim Cup, hosted by the legendary Dutch sprinter – Peter van den Hoogenband, turned back the clock to December 31st 2007.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU)* and FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) are pleased to announce the extension of their longstanding partnership for the distribution of the European media rights until 2013. The agreement includes the 2011 and 2013 FINA World Championships in addition to the 2010 and 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).

Once more LMC provided the highly awarded AntelopeHD UltraSlowMotion Camera for the World-Feed of the Hahnenkamm Races in Kitzbühel which was provided by ORF Austrian Television

An 'awsome' Roger Federer marched his way into the quarter-finals of the 2010 Australian Open with a thumping straight sets win over Lleyton Hewitt. He will face Nikolay Davydenko in the quarter finals.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU)* and the International Biathlon Union (IBU) have reached an agreement to prolong their cooperation for the worldwide media rights. The agreement covers the four (4), upcoming seasons (2010–2014) of the IBU Biathlon World Cups, the IBU World Championships, as well as other events.

Wellen+Noethen GmbH announced that it has won thecontract to lease out the media technology for the live broadcasting of the 2010 WinterOlympics for German television. The contract was placed by German public-servicebroadcaster ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen).

The wait is over. LMC is on its way to Vancouver. Accompanied luggage contains various AntelopeHD UltraSlowMotion Systems as well as an HD analysis package for ORF Austrian Television consisting of AKI PAINT HD including a touch screen and a Dartfish analysis system.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its Member broadcasters have launched “Vancouver Live” (www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics), a unique video portal for winter sports enthusiasts. For the first time, www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics will be distributing a selected number of events through the portal’s HD Channel. Live video streams in this channel will be available at a higher definition (1280x720p) providing a compelling online viewing experience.

Engage Super League action is set to be seen by more people than ever before in 2010 as television and the internet help expand the competition’s horizons to previously unreachable levels.

In 2010 Engage Super League matches will be screened across some of the biggest cities in the USA after the RFL struck a broadcast deal with America One, a national television network reaching an audience in excess of 35 million households in 125 markets.

This Envisat image features the city of Vancouver in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Vancouver, the third largest city in Canada, is the Host City of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games from February 12-28.

European champions Spain must negotiate a tough group including the Czech Republic if they are to defend their title in Poland and Ukraine after Sunday's UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying draw in Warsaw.

High-definition production equipment from Grass Valley™ will be extensively used in temporary production studios and on-site at many of the venues in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to bring home the live and tape-delayed telecasts of this year’s Winter Games in pristine HD to millions of worldwide viewers from February 12–28.

A record nine Polecam systems have been commissioned to provide live video from the Winter Games which commence in Vancouver on February 12. All nine will be working in full 1080i high-definition.